Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National HerbariumBIOGRAPHY

de Kok, Rogier Petrus Johannes (1964 - )

Botany Career

1998 - Post Doctoral Fellow at CSIRO and Australian National Herbarium,
working on Pultenaea (Fabaceae).

1997 - Doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. Thesis: The biology
and systematics of Oxera, Faradaya and Hosea (Labiatae).

1995 - Three month field work period in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and
Fiji, studying the pollination biology and collecting samples of Oxera
and Faradaya for morphological and molecular (DNA and flavonoid) analysis.

1994 - Three month field work period in New Caledonia, studying the
pollination biology and collecting samples of Oxera for morphological
and molecular (DNA and flavonoid) analysis.

1994 - Start of D.Phil project: The Biology and Systematics of Oxera,
Faradaya and Hosea (Labiatae), at the Department of Plant-Sciences
in Oxford, under the supervision of Dr. D.J. Mabberley and Dr. A. Paton of
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

1993 - Graduation as Doctorandus in Biology at the Rijkuniversiteit,
specialising in plant systematics.

1992-1993 - Six month fieldwork in Wanariset, East Kalimantan Indonesia
as part of a project, studying the variability of bark and slash characters
of some Dipterocarpaceae and Bombacaceae.

1992 - Field study of some Dutch heath vegetations, as part of a
re-introduction program for Arnica montana, Gentiana pneumonanthe
and Pedicularis sylvatica, at the Rijkuniversiteit of Groningen.

1991-1992 - Revision of the Dutch Macrolepiota (Agaricaceae,
Fungi), at the Rijksherbarium, Leiden.

1987 - Start of Biology degree at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden.

Main Research Interests

The morphology, phylogeny and distribution of the species of the native Australian
genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae).

Other Interests

The systematics of the Labiatae and especially of species belonging to
the Clerondendreae. The systematics of the Dutch Macrolepiota
(Agaricaceae, Fungi). Historical biogeography of South-East Asia,
South-Pacific and Australia.

Awards

1996 - Award for the best research within the EC Human Capital and Mobility,
Co-operative Network in the Botanical Diversity of the Indo-Pacific region.

R.P.J. de Kok. (1997) The biology and systematics of Oxera, Faradaya
and Hosea (Labiatae). Doctoral Thesis, University of Oxford.

R.P.J. de Kok. (1998) The Systematics and Conservation of Oxera,
Faradaya and Hosea. Labiatae Newsletter.

Lectures and Posters

1991 - Macrolepiota's in Nederland. Lecture at the annual science
meeting of the Dutch Mycological Society.

1994 - Introduction into the systematics of Oxera Labill.
Lecture at first conference of the EC Human Capital and Mobility, Co-operative
Network in the Botanical Diversity of the Indo-Pacific region, at Leiden.

1995 - The systematics of Oxera Labill. and Faradaya
F. Muell. Lecture at the second conference of the EC Human Capital and Mobility,
Co-operative Network in the Botanical Diversity of the Indo-Pacific region,
at Kew.

1996 - The systematics of Oxera Labill., Faradaya F.
Muell. and Hosea Ridl. Lecture at the third conference of the EC Human
Capital and Mobility, Co-operative Network in the Botanical Diversity of the
Indo-Pacific region, at Dublin.

1997 - The systematics of Oxera Labill., Faradaya F.
Muell. and Hosea Ridl. (Labiatae). Lecture at the first biennial international
conference of the Systematics Association. Oxford.